This might sound a little silly but we have been in a proxy war against ourselves for years. This is the infamous Drug War which may sound like a joke or some metaphor, but if you ask the POW's languishing in maximum security prisons, they will tell you that this is not a humorous metaphor. Prisons seem like such a normal thing, as if every country needs them to survive. Prior to the drug laws we did not have prisons like we do today, unless we were at war and we needed a place to hold enemy combatants until a prisoner exchange could be authorized. The police of today are no longer here to protect and serve, they are now an occupying force. Can a free society exist under occupation?
When we make any substance illegal, the price increases the quality becomes unsafe and we end up with a market that is controlled by violence instead of the rule of law. The harsher the sentences and the more we enforce the laws, the more dangerous the substance and the violence becomes. In the 80's we made Pablo Escobar into a billionaire that openly declared war on Columbia. Over the last 30 years the US has militarized their police force which destroyed most of the criminals that were not willing to commit to mindless savagery that was needed to stay in business, but the Mexican cartels were more than happy to fill that gap.
Drugs are the second most profitable commodity on the planet, with energy being the first. Today we are funding a real foreign army that is willing to do all the distasteful things that would shock our hardened domestic criminals and if we allow history to be our guide, we can see exactly how this war will be fought. Pablo Escobar did not dress his soldiers in red and have them stand in lines to fight with honor, nor did he build trenches to hold a piece of ground. Instead he fought a guerrilla war, there was carnage in the streets, kidnappings, airline bombings and the US was the bag man, handing truck loads of cash over to fund his every action, while attempting to send armed forces into the country to stop him. The Cartels of today are much worse than Pablo Escobar and what we are witnessing today is only the tip of the iceberg.
Not only is this bad for domestic security it is also a tragedy for millions of American families who have lost loved ones to corporate owned POW camps who view each prisoner as a commodity that earns them a tidy sum each year for housing and experiments. This is a taboo subject in the US, whistle blowers and journalists who cover the experiments have to smuggle the videos out of the Land of the Free and away from the Free Press in order to avoid state sponsored reprisals and the BBC is usually where they land. These POW's are our people, they are our brothers and sisters, they are our country men, why are we allowing this? The US was forced by international and public sentiment to stop executing children who needed a booster seat in the electric chair many decades ago, so imagine what we could accomplish if we continued to push for change.
Someone once said that we cannot end the drug war, because we would be losing a billion dollar industry that employs millions of people, but do we really need to employ people to take our loved ones away? Imagine if we employed these people for public works, we could have bullet trains and streets that meet the building standards of any first world country, we might even surprise ourselves and build something truly phenomenal. Instead we have corporations with the audacity to advertise “This is a drug free establishment” and drug users still buy from them even with the open discrimination. I doubt any of us would shop at a store that had a “Whites Only” sign on the door, so why do we buy from a company that would discriminate against us or our loved ones in the hiring process? Why don't we hold these companies accountable? If they are willing to end the discrimination, then the civilians would have one less hurdle to jump before achieving true and lasting freedom.
The propaganda is so bad the we allow our parents and grandparents die prematurely due to the toxicity of inferior approved drugs. If you are in pain due to the symptoms of old age most countries prescribe Diamorphine (Heroin) because it is less toxic, it has less side effects and is more effective than morphine for treating pain and the addiction is not really a factor when treating dieing people. In the US, logic cannot compete with the stigma of heroin no matter what the experts say and I find it very sad that the elderly are among those who pay the ultimate price for this war. We need to be united because they are picking us off one at a time and finding a modern day Rosa Parks that can transcend the Drug War Propaganda is nearly impossible, but I would love to be proved wrong.
I hope these senior citizens can at least see what there shooting at.or were going to see alot of widows🔫🔫🔫
Swag. All your points are dead-on.